Indeed, there is a lot wrong with public education today, and perhaps a look at the old philosophers will shed some light on the subject. In examining the views

existence and in fact, everything. Not believing in something at first glance, the educated mind assesses and reasons and draws a conclusion. But the general public does something different. Most

anger. In Book II of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle notes that the soul boasts three factors; passions, faculties and states of character (Aristotle). By faculties, Aristotle means "the things in virtue

reputation as president rather than employ it for making policy. Since his speech to Congress on September 20, 2001, it has become even more apparent how Americas forty-third president

points to a chain of causality. People act in order to obtain a goal, to achieve something, which leads to another goal, and so forth. This observation causes Aristotle to

not the way to live. He also tells the people to love their enemy and to pray privately. The good person follows these directions and lessons from Christ.

case, --Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle viewed man as the ultimate "political animal." Government is not a human invention, but a natural outgrowth of community life. The purpose of

flings itself into the air, calling something similar to, "Danger! Will Robinson. Danger! Danger!" Many of us get stuck there - take the warning and run the opposite direction.

will examine three principles that underlie the political order of Aristotles ideas: The individual and family (the bottom "rungs" of the ideal polis), the village (the next step up) and

land, are as follows, providing us with a foundation for further examination: "At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for

reference to things possessed by ancient heroes and gods and such as they involved positive traits such as strength, wisdom, and courage (Aristotle: A General Introduction, 2006). The problem, it

good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in

Aristotles perspective on the nature of things, it should also be realized that he saw as working in conjunction with Platos concept of forms. Frost points out that, as a

airport for a number of reasons (Young, 2006). He writes that a friend would volunteer to take another friend to the airport for the following reasons: " because you want

that purpose is not present because we do not observe the agent deliberating. Art does not deliberate. If the ship-building art were in the wood, it would produce the